Rack device



F. GOERTZ.

RACK DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19. 1917.

1 375,840, Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

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RACK DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 19, 1917.

Patented Apr. 26,1921

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FREDERICK GOEBEZ, O3? NE'WARK, Iil'E'V-V JERSEY, ASSEGNOR T0 AUGUST GOERTZ 82; 00.,

A GORPGRATION OF NEW JERSEY.

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specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1921.

Application filed. June 19, 1917. Serial No. 175,604.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Fnnonnron Gonn'rz, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in llaclr Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to characters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates, generally, to improvements in racks; and, the present invention has reference, more particularly, to that class of racks comprising a supporting member or base-plate with which is adjustably connected one or more supporting arms or hangers, so as to provide a towel rack or means adapted for other uses, as in wardrobe trunks, wardrobes, and the like.

The invention has for its principal object the production of a simple and neatly constructed towel raclr or hanger of the general character hereinafter more particularly set forth, which is provided with one or more adjustably disposed supporting arms, adapted to be brought into horizontal position for the support thereon of a towel, garment or the like, and in which position the sup porting arm or arms are adapted to swing or to be moved horizontally, but the said arm or arms, when the device is not in use, being adapted to be brought into a vertically suspended relation, so that the device will take up but a minimum space.

The invent-ion has for its further object to provide a rack in which the supporting arm or arms can be brought into a raised and braced supporting relation, so as to provide a rigid and strong construction, upon the arm or arms of which articles, such as towels, garments, or the like maybe hung without any objectionable sagging of the arm or arms when in use.

Other objects of this invention not at this time more particularly enumerated will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the present invention.

With the various objects of the present invention in view, the said invention consists,

primarily, in the novel rack hereinafter more fully set forth; and, the invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the various devices and parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the said parts, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claim which are appended to and which form an essential part of the said specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a front elevation of the rack, showing the same secured to a door or a panel of the wall; Fig. 2 is a top view of the same; and F 3 is a horizontal sectional representation of the device, said section being taken on line 33 in said Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow :0.

Fig. l is a detail transverse sectional representation of the device, said section being taken on line H in Fig. 2 of the drawings, looking in the direction of the arrow 3 with certain parts of the rack being represented in elevation.

Fig. 5 is a front view of a rack provided with but a single supporting arm; Fig. 6 is a top view of the same, with the arm and its pivotal support omitted; and Fig. 7 is a horizontal section taken on line 77 in said Fig. 5, looking in the direction of the arrow 2, with the supporting arm and its means of pivotal support also omitted from said view.

Fig. 8 is a transverse sectional representation similar to the section represented in said Fig. i, but showing a slightly modified means of connection between the supporting arm and its bracket-like pivotal support.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the said above described views to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said drawings, the reference-character 1 indicates a panel, door, or the like, to which is secured by means of screws 3, or other suitable fastening means, a supporting or carrying member, as 4, from which extend from its upper and lower marginal edges, respectively, an upper memher or plate, as 5, provided with a suitable arrangement of holes or perforations 6, and a lower member or plate 7, which is provided with a corresponding arrangement of slots, as 8, and has its marginal edge composed of a number of arc-shaped parts 9, preferably as shown in Fig. 8 oil the drawings, the centers or the said arc-shaped portions corresponding to the centers or the arcsshaped edge-portions 10 of the respec tive slots 8, for the purposes to be presently more fully set forth.

The referencecharacters 11 indicate a number or supporting arms, in the form of rods or bars, usually made or wood, said rods or bars being provided at their outer ends with ornamental caps or knobs 12 of metal. It will be evident, however, that these caps or knobs are not essential and may be dispensed. with if desired.

At its inner end each supporting arm or rod 11 is pivotally supported to the upper member or plate 5 by means of a b 'aclret like supporting means, preferably made oi wire; and each supporting means consisting of a sustaining member or portion 18, formed one end with an angular endmember 1 which is pointed, as at 15, for driving the said member is into the end of the supporting arm or rod 11, substantially as indicated in the several figures or the drawings.

At its other end, each sustaining member or portion 13 has a curved part, as 16, which terminates in an angularly disposed bracing member or strut, as 17, said bracing member or strut being provided at end-portion with an eye or ring-shaped end member, as 18, encircling the said supporting arm or rod, as shown in the several figures of the drawings.

As shown in Figs. 1, E2 and 3 or the drawings, the raclndevice has its member or plate 5 provided with three holes or perilorations 6, and the member or plate '2" is formed with three slots 8, for the adjustable and swinging arrangement with relation to the said members or plates 5 and 7, as will be undrstood from an inspection oi the several figures of the drawings, of a com spenc hereinabove described bracketdilre support-- means and supporting arm or rod 11.

Of course it will be understood that the member or plate 5 and the member or plate 7 may be provided with any desired number of such holes or perforations 6 and slots 8, so that rack-devices may be provided to the trade with less or more than three adjustable and swinging supporting arms or rods 11., will be clearly evident, and to this eid'ect have shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 of the drawings, a rack-device having but a single arrangement oi supporting means and a single supporting arm or red 11.

As shown, the sustaining members 13 ot the respective supporting means are movably disposed in the holes or perforations 6 and are also movably as well as removng arrangement and number of suoi ably disposed in the slots 8, so that each supporting arm or rod 11 may be brought into its hor'aontally disposed swinging and supper g relation when to be used for the arrangement thereon of a towel, garment, or the lilre, or may be brought into its vertically suspended relation, when the arm or arms 11 is out or use.

lr desired, the angular end-member 14: of each supporting means may be made with screw-threads 19, as indicated in Fig. 8 of the drawings, which is adapted to be screwed into the end of the arm or rod 11, instead or being driven into the end of the d rod, as in the construction represented l igs. l to 5 inclusive. lhe manner of bringing t 1e said supportrms or rods into their variously adusted positions with relation to the main supporting upon the clearly u,

or carrying member d secured "all, door, or the like, will be :stood from the foregoing description present invention and from an inspection of the several figures of the draw. s, and any further description of same is therefore deemed unnecessary. ll course I am aware that changes may be made in the general arrangements and coin inations oi the several devices and parts, as well as in the details or the corn st uction of the s l parts, without departfrom the scope of the present invention set tort-h in the foregoing specification, and as ClGi'lllQCl in the clauses oi the claim which appended thereto. Hence, I do :nit my invention to the exact arrangearts and combinations of the various devices and parts as described in the said specification, nor do I confine Inysell to the details of the construction of the said as illustrated in the accompanying or u ising a main supplate and a lower tending forwardly at ai main supporting upper p to being provided 1 a perforation, and said lower plate .ng provided with a slot, combined with a supp and bracket-shaped supmeans consis n of two members ,i ,rly disposed with i lation to each in manner the base and hypotenuse of a e i rting bar forming the le, and' means for g bar respectively d hypotenuse, consistot a right-angled member extending iroin said se and secured in the end of said supporting bar, and a ring-shaped element upon the free end oi said hypotenuse, said ring-shaped element encircling said supporting bar, aid base being disposed in perforation and in said slot, so as to saio normally bear against said main supporting member to extend said supporting bar horizontally above said upper plate, but said supporting bar being movably disposed in said perforation so as to cause said supporting bar to hang in suspended relation from said upper plate.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of June, 1917.

FREDERICK GOERTZ.

"V /'itnesses:

FREDK. C. FRAENTZEL, FREDK H. W. FRAENTZEL. 

